[system16]

In the years following this, a lot of the big game developers (especially mobile) opened offshore studios in SE Asia and Eastern Europe where endless crunch like is described in the legendary ea_spouse post is still very alive and well. Basically orders come down from "HQ" which is typically the home office in Western Europe or US/Canada, and the overseas studios follow their marching orders. Added bonus for the company: much lower employee salaries and lax or non-existent labour laws.

Source: worked for a major game developer at one of their SE Asia studios for a while.

[thematrixturtle]

Yup. Ubisoft Singapore hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons just last year: https://kotaku.com/the-messy-stalled-reckoning-at-an-assassi...

[IntelMiner]

The last EA game I picked up was the Command & Conquer remastered collection. I even went as far as to buy the physical box set from LimitedRunGames

Hearing how they treated LemonSky absolutely soured me on playing it in the end however

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm7KUE1Kwts

[solardev]

What is a lemon sky? Your YouTube link just talks about outsourcing.

[IntelMiner]

Lemon Sky is an outsourcing studio based in SouthEast Asia

[solardev]

I see, thanks. I take it EA mistreated them during the development of the re-released Command & Conquer? What happened?

[IntelMiner]

4:45 talks specifically about Lemon Sky